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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: new ia64 kernel patch (relative to 2.5.69)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:25:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705742@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705722@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2003 10:01:00 +1000, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:

  Keith> On Sun, 11 May 2003 00:02:50 +1000, Keith Owens
  Keith> <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
  >> * Always save the return address in r28 in addition to b6 ...
  >> ... kernprof only gets the minstate data and it needs the return
  >> address to report the real contention code.

  Keith> Ignore that last bit, b6 is in pt_regs.  I don't know what I
  Keith> was thinking when I wrote that.  But the bit about not
  Keith> appearing in the INIT/MCA minstate dump still applies.

Then fix the dump.  There is certainly not a reason to change normal
kernel code because of something that (for ordinary users) happens
once in a blue moon, if ever.

	--david


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-10 14:02 [Linux-ia64] Re: new ia64 kernel patch (relative to 2.5.69) Keith Owens
2003-05-12 23:20 ` David Mosberger
2003-05-12 23:38 ` Keith Owens
2003-05-13  0:01 ` Keith Owens
2003-05-13  0:25 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-05-13  0:29 ` David Mosberger

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